Shawn O'Connor for the Wall Street Journal Downtown Aspen Last year, hedge-fund titan John Paulson paid $24.5 million for a 13,000-square-foot estate with a sandy beach, surrounding ponds, a 35-foot-wall of disappearing glass, views of the four ski mountains and a media room with leather seats. ❋ Nancy Keates (2011)
The minerals associated with the quartz in this vein, especially the cuprite and mispickel, are found most abundantly upon the foot-wall side, or underside of the quartz itself. ❋ Various (N/A)
In dips 35° to 50° this trough, laid on the foot-wall, gives a sufficiently smooth surface for the ore to run upon. ❋ Herbert Hoover (1919)
Winzes to be used for filling should be put on the hanging-wall side of the area to be filled, for the filling poured down will then reach the foot-wall side of the stopes with a minimum of handling. ❋ Herbert Hoover (1919)
In places, however, the crystals of mica occur in abundance, sometimes near the foot-wall, again near the hanging-wall and sometimes scattered irregularly through the central portion of the vein. ❋ North Carolina. Board Of Agriculture. (1896)
With the discovery of this foot-wall, Joe called a halt. ❋ Chase [Illustrator] Emerson (1887)
But that we had found a real, genuine vein, even we, novices as we were at the business, could not doubt, and very heartily we shook hands with each other when our trenching at length brought us up against the limestone foot-wall. ❋ Chase [Illustrator] Emerson (1887)
We had a fine view, from here, of the energetic Visp, as it makes its first plunge into the world from under a huge arch of solid ice, worn through the foot-wall of the great Gorner Glacier; and we could also see the Furggenbach, which is the outlet of the Furggen Glacier. ❋ Unknown (1879)
We had a fine view, from here, of the energetic Visp, as it makes its first plunge into the world from under a huge arch of solid ice, worn through the foot-wall of the great ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
The people had sunk several pits in places likely to yield 'kindly quartz,' and they had made no mistakes as to the overlay of the lode, its foot-wall or its hanging-wall. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
Among other crowd-pleasing acts is the "wall trampoline," where two of the contraptions are separated by a 12-foot-wall of bulletproof glass that the trampoline team scales and performs maneuvers on. ❋ Unknown (2011)
About six hundred feet in the rear of the redoubt, and about one hundred feet to the left of the breastwork, was a post and rail-fence, set in a low foot-wall of stone, and extending down to Mystic ❋ Washington Irving (1821)
_foot-wall_, which is in itself really a most valuable portion of the ore-channel. ❋ Various (N/A)
I've found what I suppose to be the porphyry hanging-wall, right here "-- tapping the rock with his pick --" and I've been trying to trench across the vein to find the foot-wall, but the shale runs in on me faster than I can dig it out. " ❋ Chase [Illustrator] Emerson (1887)
